we have ongoing programs in syria.in fact, last year, syria was the destination from which the largest number of refugees came to the united states. they came through syria. there is more we would like them to do. senator kerry mentioned -- senator lugar mentioned about the circuit riders from homeland security. we would like to see more of these is issued. it would help our processing and they could;ig issue more authorization for ngo's to work with those refugees. there is work there but i can make progress on that theme given the relative stability that you referred to with the iraqi government being in place, what is the residence for refugees today in syria that have not come back to iraq? >> we have done pretty detailed surveys of that. the united nations has as well. there are still security concerns among the refugee population in places like syria and jordan. as the security situation in iraq gradually improves, we think we will say more refugees going back home. in the past year, calendar year 2009 saw a tota

let me reiterate that returning an ambassador to syria is not a reward to syria.embark the chain and the fundamentals of our concerns with that important country rather it would mark a change in the way we try to secure our national interest. syria has its own interest in iraq and lebanon and the middle east peace process for returning would mark a change in how we tried to persuade and press syria where that interest is best found. as president obama's said in his speech at cairo university then it is states should commit itself to an effort of a sustained effort of the find common aground but the president also said we should not ignore sources of tension but instead we have to confront those tensions squarely especially at a time when the middle east has increasing tensions we should be talking every day and every week with top-level officials who have influence and authority in that syria. they need to hear directly from us, not from the media or third-party countries what american calculations and syncing are and what could be the potential cost to syria of t

a reward to syria.uld it mark a change in the fundamentals of our concerns with that important country. rather, it would mark a change in the way we try to secure our national interests in syria. and syria has its own interests in iraq, in lebanon and in the middle east peace process. thus, returning an ambassador would mark a change in how we try persuade and press syria about where syria's true interests are best found. as president obama said in his speech at cairo university, the united states should commit itself to an effort, a sustained effort to find common ground. but the president also said that we should not ignore sources of tension. instead, we have to confront those tensions squarely. especially at a time when the middle east confronts increasing tensions, we should be talking every day and every week with top level officials who have influence and authority in syria. they need to hear directly from us. not from the media and not from third party countries what american calculations and am

he decided that it was worth trying to engage syria and try to see if you could embrace syria in a way that would moderate syrian behavior and of course more recently you up at the saudi-- which i think has a number of routes but i agree with you part of the discussion has been, probably been on iraq. so you end up at a point where we were the ones isolated. it was no longer syria being isolated. it was the united states in isolated soy think this administration decided that engagement, engagement is something we need to try and i will emphasize engage my does not mean as i said before engaged is not need to embrace. engagement does not mean endorsement of certain policies. engagement does not mean that we love everything you are doing. it is simply a different tool to try to achieve that means-- so far the results have been modest at best but this also hasn't been something that we have been doing that long. >> i entirely agree with you that engaging someone is not the same as embracing them however i would also ask, why aren't we acting, and maybe we are and please correct me, why ar

and the same thing is true i think with syria. we need to try to be more in gauging and the results have not been very successful. thank you very much brighter urge everyone to buy and read lee book. >> i will respond to the first if you buy to take a second. i don't think the policies are so modest that they definitely have rougher tactics. of you look at iraq right now i think it is very hard to break down different countries in the region but even if you're able to look at about eleanor iraq, i will stick to those two countries in particular and work on the different issues, you have a lot of regional actors to are invested will go on and a and it seems that the syrians and radios along with prime minister morale the key. so with everyone interfering in everyone else's house hired you close down the one society to say now we will look at lebanon? now you need to play fairly rough with the neighbors perhaps the saudis generally have been a fairly positive influence in lebanon up until recently in a way. i think these things are

it is lebanon poorest border with syria to which iran and syria smuggle thousands and thousands of rocketsd missiles to hezbollah. our main security problem with dasa is not israel's border with cassette. it is the gaza border with egypt under which there are thousands of tunnels dug through which hamas smuggled weapons to fire at us. my friends, experience shows that only an israeli presence on israeli presence innt or the eastern border of a future palestinian state. [applause] if peace with the palestinians proves its stability over time, we can review security arrangements. we are prepared to take risks for peace. but we will not be reckless with the lives of our citizens and the one and only jewish state. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the people of israel want a future in which our children no longer experience the horrors of war matt. we want a future in which israel realizes its full and great potential as a global center of technology anchored in its fall use living in peace with all of its neighbors. i envision an israel that can dedicate even more of its scientific and creativ

we were in syria, sir, and we scratched the sand and came up with bones. how can you argue with that? >> nabi sensoy: well, bones you can find anywhere in turkey, you know. there they been a lot of tragedies that happened in those lands. >> simon: excuse me, sir. we dug up these bones in a place called deir zor, which armenians say is their equivalent of auschwitz. >> sensoy: well, i don't think that it was any... anything to comparable to auschwitz. this was only deportation, and things happened on the road. >> simon: but the deportations ended in massacres, didn't they? >> sensoy: no, it did not. >> simon: weren't there massacres, mass executions and death marches of the armenians? >> sensoy: there was no death marches of armenians. there was deportation and tragic things happened. many people perished under the deprivations of the first world war. >> simon: but did what happen in 1915 amount to genocide? the u.n. defines it as the intent to destroy a racial, ethnic or religious group. >> sensoy: the most important thing is the intent. the killings is so

iran, maybe syria, certainly, there is the north korean connection that comes up from time-to-time. the central point is not to do the bureaucratic archaeology. the central point is to stop it. >> thanks for your service, mr. ambassador, about comment on pakistan and its ability to deal with its internal security problem and whether it can be a help or a hindrance in this effort? >> well, that is a very important question. i am not an expert on pakistan, though, i have been there often and i lived for two years in afghanistan. i think the pakistan government in the last year has begun to show movement in the right direction. particularly, their operation in waziristan, their recent in the last two weeks, these rather important captures of intelligence operatives from pakistan and afghan taliban show that the intelligence service and the military is beginning to move. they have a problem, which is, the indians still have about a half a million people in kashmir, on their border, they have fought a number of wars against india, and it would certainly be helpful if the indians would wo

two-states with two peoples bidding side-by- side in peace and security, with peace between israel and syria, and israel and lebanon, and normal relations between israel and all arab states, a comprehensive peace that israel, not a slogan, rooted in a genuine recognition of the right to exist of israel in peace and security. and that offers the best way to promise in during survival and well-being of israel. that is the goal that the obama administration it is helpedeterd to achieve. george mitchell has worked tirelessly to prepare the ground for the resumption of direct negotiations beginning with the proximity talks on both sides. these talks are hopeful first up and should be serious and substantive. a ultimately, it will take direct negotiations between the parties to work through all the issues and and the conflict. the u.s. stands ready to play an active and sustained role in these talks and to support the parties as they work to resolve permanent status' issues, including security, borders, refugees, and jerusalem. the u.s. knows that we cannot force a solution ordained the outcome. t

and syria's relations with iran is one of those items that is a part of ongoing discussion with syria. we want to see syria play more constructive role in the region and also want to extend the ability to talk with iran directly and ensure that syria is communicating to iran, its concerns about -- it's a role in the region, and the direction, the nature of its nuclear ambitions, but the primary purpose for having the syrian ambassador was just kind of a follow-up on that meeting in damascus and chart the way forward. >> [inaudible] >> it wouldn't surprise me. >> [inaudible] >> i don't know, that's a good question. >> [inaudible] >> i don't think it has been confirmed, that would be -- i know until you are confirmed you are not at a business meeting. >> iran supreme leader has some pretty strong words for the iaea over the weekend. alleging the repoire the nuclear report was biased and took a lot of the criticism on the head of the iaea, the new guy, so are you encouraged by this more tenuous relationship that iran has with the iaea now? and you have anything. >> up the nuclear --? >>

syria was still retain its ample stocks of chemical weapons. should israel be expected to promise to forgo nuclear deterrence in such an environment? others would face daily biological threats. are we to expect them to forego those that these would be naive expectations. how can we lead the world to nuclear zero when many of our closest allies and friends continued to see nuclear weapons as a pillar to their security. if we remove that pillar, some allies would have to find an alternative, including other weapons of mass destruction. proponents of nuclear zero have not offered any possible basis for swearing this circle other than the hope that allies will stop singineeing the world like. the reality of course is that the apprehension about nuclear zero is understandable and the fears are reasonable. "one might hope in major war would not happen in a world without nuclear happens, but it always did." some prospective opponents are no less eager to retain nuclear weapons. they see the drive as a u.s. trek. to undercut the capabilities they see a

we might not agree on syria and france took an initiative. at no point has president obama turned his back on what we were doing. he is constantly watching and listening and we are constantly exchanging information even when there are more complex topics including our relations with the russians. president obama knows exactly what we are going to do and when we are going to do. we are very transparent on both sides with confidence and trust. there is a lot of trust. trust always helps one overcome diverging interests. it may be that the united states has slightly different interests than france but the bedrock of trust between us is something that he has with all european leaders. this is true. i took two examples of two topics that could have led to a head-on collision but in this case it was the contrary. we are complementary on both sides of the atlantic. maybe one dathat is the way we . go ahead. >> since you have just talked about the united -- the relationship between the united states and europe, didn't you get a surprise on the tanker

if lebanon forced border with syria to which iran and syria smuggle thousands and thousands of rockets and missiles to hezbollah. and our main security problem with gaza is not israel's border with god that, it's gaza's border with egypt. under which there are about 1000 tunnels dug to which hamas smuggled weapons to fire at us. my friends, experience has shown that only an israeli presence on the ground can prevent or limit weapons smuggling. and this is why a peace agreement with the palestinians must include in is really present in the eastern border of the future palestinian state. [applause] is peace with the palestinians proves its durability over time, we can review security arrangements. we are prepared to take risks for peace. but we will not be reckless with the lives of our citizens and the life of the one and only jewish state. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the people of israel want a future in which our children no longer experience the horrors of war. we want a future in which israel realizes its full great potential as a global center of technology, ingrid and its val

with peace between israel and syria and israel and lebanon.ormal relations between israel and all the arab states. [applause] a comprehensive peace. [applause] that is real, not a slogan that is rooted in genuine recognition of israel's right to exist in peace and security and that offers the best way to ensure israel's enduring survival and well-being. that is the goal that the obama administration is determined to help israel and the palestinians achieve. george mitchell has worked tirelessly with the parties to prepare the ground for the resumption of direct negotiations, beginning with the proximity talks, though the sides have accepted. these proximity talks are a hopeful first step and they should you serious and substantive. but ultimately of course, it will take direct negotiations between the parties to work through all the issues and end the conflict. the united states stand ready to play an active and sustained role in these talks, and to support the parties as they work to resolve permanent status issues, including security, border

syria and iran.ts not of delivering people but of other players. it happened to be that this motion does not just to develop the new longbows or more effective arrows. they happen to have 45,000 rockets and missiles that could wipe out israel and are part of what they have activated. they already did it in the past, we've seen this. this militia happened to have weapons that many sovereigns don't have. we cannot accept this artificial division jadifferentiation betwe terrorists of hezbollah and the others. we keep saying that we do not need any conflict there. we will not lead towards one. but we do not want to chase an individual hezbollah terrorists. they are digging within the urban concentration inside the city's, inside the civilian population. these weapons that they have mainly cannot be used against any military targets. they're not accurate enough. the only conceivable use of most of those weapons is against civilian populations in heavily urban concentrations. that is what they have tried t

web hosting companies denied service to political opposition groups in zimbabwe and syria.wrap can be done to ensure u.s. sanctions and export controls do not prevent the u.s. companies from providing internet technology and services like website hosting to human rights and democracy activists living under repressive governments? >> as you know, mr. chairman, the jurisdiction for export controls is shared between the commerce department. we enforce our export administration regulations and other rules that the state department as well as the treasury department. as the services such as twitter and others that you mentioned that don't employ any encryption software on the user end, as far as we understand, those services are freely available around the world with, from the perspective of u.s. regulations. obviously, as you note, other countries may block access to those service, but the commerce department's export administration regulations do not prevent anyone in the world from using a service like twitter. that is because it's a service that's based on the web. it doesn'

policy of use of force in response to retaliation the president was key in doing it against iran and syria that the u.s. government believes was responsible for downing pan am 103 but they wanted to set up a special tribunal to investigate and in the course of their investigation a pad out the perpetrators were the bn and not syrian and iranian. of the media they came out of the game with the preferred policy approach we have articulate it we would have hit the wrong country. though the goal approach provided the avenue for a more rational thinking and the gathering of the evidence to the legal process. there is also a situation of a cruise ship in the mediterranean hijacked by terrorist and they killed an american and citizen and eventually stopped in egypt and boarded an egyptian plane and ronald reagan deployed fighter planes of an aircraft carrier to intercept the plane. we all remember this as the fighter planes went up and into shoot down the plan there were going to it landed in italy and these individuals were arrested, detained and behind the scenes the lawyers had said to preside

two states for two people living side by side in peace and security was peace between israel and syriand israel and lebanon o, a normal relationship between israel and all the states. all the arab states. [applause] a comprehensive peace. [applause] that is real, not a slogan that is rooted in genuine recognition of israel's right to exist in peace and security and that offers the best way to ensure israel's enduring survival and well-being. that is the goal that the obama administration is determined to help israel and the palestinians achieve. george mitchell has worked tirelessly with the parties to prepare the ground for the resumption of direct negotiations, beginning with the proximity talks, though the sides have accepted. these proximity talks are a hopeful first step and they should you serious and substantive. but ultimately of course, it will take direct negotiations between the parties to work through all the issues and end the conflict. the united states stand ready to play an active and sustained role in these talks, and to support the parties as they work to resolve perm

syria and iran. technologically and with equipment. and many civil servants in uniform and without uniform of both member states of the united nations are serving in lebanon within the chain of command of hezbollah and giving orders stemming out of the interests not of the lebanese people, but of other place. and it happened to be that this militia doesn't just develop a new long bow or more effective -- [inaudible] but it happened to have 45,000 rockets and missiles that happen to cover all israel, and they are part of a deployment that tells that they will activate it, and we have seen that they already did it in the past. these militia happen to have weapons systems that some many sovereigns do not have. we cannot accept it, we cannot accept the differencation between the terrorists of hezbollah and lebanon, and we keep saying we do not need my conflict, we will not lead it towards one, but if attacked, we will chase any individual hezbollah terrorist and they are, in fact, building and digging within the urban concentration, inside

that are in syria and jordan.there was a student at goucher university in baltimore who was a iraqi refugee living in syria that was fortunate enough to be able to make it to the united states. his story about so many people in his family that didn't make it because of the refugee status. we have a responsibility in regards to the people who are still refugees from the iraq conflict and i would just urge you to continue our intention to get iraq the region and the international community along with the united states focused on how we can help the lives of those people. >> we completely agree with that. and we have a concerted effort that is looking at how we can do more to help iraqi refugees and try to resettle them back in iraq if that's their choice. >> thank you, senator. >> i want to thank you for your terrific diligence in pursuing the helsinki commission efforts. senator shaheen. >> welcome, secretary clinton. we're delighted to have you here and appreciate the leadership that you're providing to the depart

web hosting companies denied service to political opposition groups in zimbabwe and syria. wrap can be done to ensure u.s. sanctions and export controls do not prevent the u.s. companies from providing internet technology and services like website hosting to human rights and democracy activists living under repressive governments? >> as you know, mr. chairman, the jurisdiction for export controls is shared between the commerce department. we enforce our export administration regulations and other rules that the state department as well as the treasury department. as the services such as twitter and others that you mentioned that don't employ any encryption software on the user end, as far as we understand, those services are freely available around the world with, from the perspective of u.s. regulations. obviously, as you note, other countries may block access to those service, but the commerce department's export administration regulations do not prevent anyone in the world from using a service like twitter. that is because it's a service that's based on the web. it doesn

our vote is our arms syria. by the way, it is within our own borders and homeland where we should feel so safe and not condone any kind of violence. it is within the homeland we should feel safe, and that makes me want to say, and the zwolle tile times when we are a nation at war, -- in these volatile i'ltimes when we are a nation at war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor lecturing us at the lectern. job number one is to get our economy roaring back to life. obama, pelosi, reaid and their friends in congress -- they think we can tax and borrow our way and spend our way out of the problem. it was on track to quadruple our deficit. they proposed a 3.8 mind boggling -- 3.8 trillion dollar federal budget, and they just passed that, and they just pass that european-style health care scheme called obama care. >> boo! >> something is not quite right when fidel castro comes out and says he likes obama care, but we do not like obama care. they keep borrowing and proposing big new programs with giant pricetags

the program continued just recently when israelis on the nuclear and now they're thin syria, and the iranian program continues today. i will have a lot more to say about iran and a minute. these new terrorists must have a different motive from all terrorists, because they are completely different. what do we know about the motives? we know a lot, because terrorists sought a lot about their motives. lisa -- they started talking about it in the late 1980's's. these islamic extremists affect an extreme version of his long they define as being at war with the west. for two decades in the statements they have issued thurman they have been very clear. they have a goal, which is the conversion of the entire war to their own -- the entire world to their war division of is long. -- their warped vision of is from -- of islam. the founder of the muslim brotherhood wrote decades ago, almost 80 years ago, "a maslow has no nationality but his belief -- and moslem has no nationality but his belief." they call for a grand jihad to eliminate and destroy western civilization from within so it is elimi

. >> well, countries like iran, north korea, syria, they don't build nuclear weapons themselves.d on outside assistance, can be cases syria going to north korea to buy a nuclear reactor. case of iran, they got help from a pakistani. plus they go out and shop western markets to buy vital equipment and materials so they can put together facilities to make nuclear weapons materials and learn how to make nuclear weapons. so what you have is kind of an insidious slow effort to try to acquire this capable that goes on largely behind the scenes. >> what's at stake in terms of our national security? >> well, iran wouldn't be a threat if it hadn't had that kind of outside assist. if kahn had not assisted iran in developing a vital nuclear technology, it wouldn't be anywhere near the threat it is today. pakistan, without being able to steal the nuclear information in europe and then create a smuggling network of its own, almost an unrivaled smuggling network, would only be beginning nuclear weapons now if it was very determined. what you would have is these kind of smuggling networks, coun

with peace between israel and syria and israel and lebanon. normal relations between israel and all the arab states. and normal relations between israel and all the arab states. [applause] a comprehensive peace. [applause] that is real, not a slogan that is rooted in genuine recognition of israel's right to exist in peace and security and that offers the best way to ensure israel's enduring survival and well-being. that is the goal that the obama administration is determined to help israel and the palestinians achieve. george mitchell has worked tirelessly with the parties to prepare the ground for the resumption of direct negotiations, beginning with the proximity talks, though the sides have accepted. these proximity talks are a hopeful first step and they should you serious and substantive. but ultimately of course, it will take direct negotiations between the parties to work through all the issues and end the conflict. the united states stand ready to play an active and sustained role in these talks, and to support the parties as they work

web hosting companies denied services to the political opposition groups in zimbabwe and syria and ie done to ensure u.s. sanctions and exports control do not prevent the u.s. companies from providing internet technology and services like website hosting to human rights democracy activists living under the government's. >> as you know, mr. chairman the jurisdiction for the control is shared between the commerce department. we enforce our export administration regulations and others as well as the treasury department. as the services like water and others that you mentioned that don't employ any encryption software on the user's end as far as we understand those services are available around the world from the perspective of the u.s. regulations obviously as you note other countries need access to those the commerce department's export administration regulations do not prevent anyone in the world from using a service like twitter. that is because it is a service based on the web and it doesn't require installation of software. it's also the case under the commerce department regulatio

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with peace between israel and syria and israel and lebanon. normal relations between israel and all the arab states. [applause] a comprehensive peace that is not real, not a slogan, that is rooted in recognition of israel's right to exist in peace and security. it offers the best way to ensure israel's survival and well- being. that is the goal that the obama administration is determined to help israel and the palestinians achieve. george mitchell has worked tirelessly with the party to prepare the ground for the perception of direct negotiations beginning with the proximity talks in both sides have accepted. the proximity talks are unhelpful for step. there should be serious and substantive. ultimately, of course, it will take the writ negotiation and between the parties to work through all of the issues and and the conflict. the united states stands ready to play an active and sustainable in these conversations. we want to support the parties as the work to resolve permanent status' issues including security, borders, refugees, and jerusalem

the syrian program contingent until just recently when the israelis bombed a nuclear plant in syria. they're running program continues today. i will have a lot more to say about a run in a minute. -- about iran in a minute. we face something new here. these new terrorists must have a different motive. they're completely different. what do we know? we actually know and not because terrorists have talked a lot about motives. they started talking about it in the late 1980's. these islamic extremists profess an extreme version of it is long which they define as being unnecessarily at war with the west. -- has been necessarily at war with the west. they have been very clear. they basically have a goal, which is the conversion, by force if necessary, of the entire world to their work version of islam. they want to establish a universal tell a thing. there is an egyptian who is very important to this. his name is sayyid qutb. he was the founder of the islamic brotherhood. he wrote "a muslim has no nationality but his belief." the strategic plan published in 1991 said, and again, i am going

drastically enhanced is exciting would be to have the black box data when it's down loaded, one of syria'srash occurs -- when a serious crash occurs have that data go to nhtsa so that can be the basis for their evaluation of defects and of safety standards and the data would be voluminous and it would be fabulous. far more than what they have today. it would be much less expensive. i hope the committee will consider that issue as well. the new safety standards should come out of some of the work that goes on in the defense area. for years nhtsa feedback has failed when they hid them in the rear at 30 miles an hour. if the seat back fails you cannot control the car. many people become paralyzed as a result. in the toyota case, a break override's standard -- brake override standard and the new accelerator standard. it was issued in 1973 and is not even electronic, so it's irrelevant to the current model. finally, i believe that's conflict of interest rules lead to constraints. nhtsa has a test facility in ohio, but it's owned by honda motor co.. it used to be owned by the state of ohio. i th

. >> they need to get syria to get hezbollah to start giving [ bleep ]. >> reporter: a politician andophone can be a dangerous, dangerous thing. jesse jackson learned that lesson with his critique of then-candidate obama's faith-based outreach. all of the potty-mouth politicians. is this a modern phenomenon? that is a load of [ bleep ]. listen to the nixon white house tapes. and although ronald reagan didn't swear on an open mic, he did declare thermo nuclear war. >> i have signed legislation that would outlaw russia forever. we begin bombing in five minutes. >> reporter: we call them gaffes, because they weren't meant to be heard. on his major league moment, george w. bush never took it back. he just said he was plain-spoken. and on health care, we've been fighting about it for a year. >> this man would get no care whatsoever. >> reporter: it is a big deal, right? a really big deal. or as joe biden and the already made t-shirt declare -- "good morning america," john berman, abc news. >> i'll have you know, that i'm taking john berman into the bathroom and washing his mouth out with s

if we did iraq, then we could do iran and then syria. that is the way the rest of the world looked at it because it was hyped as some new plan. it has always been true that the u.s. has been able to act preemptively in some situation if they thought it would be in our national self-defense. the issue was not preemption. it was the other word in the doctrine -- "prevention." there and is knockenot -- iran t going to have a missile with which to attack the united states. but knowing that iran may soon have a nuclear weapons capable program, do we act before they get to that point? that would be preventive war, to prevent something from happening. for all the reasons that she stated, i think we will end up in a very similar situation to the way things work in the cold war. there was a phrase in the cold war that was called "adequate verification." it was a term invented by the nixon administration. it meant that we could have an agreement with the soviet union, who we know are lying and cheating and stealing rations -- [laughter] >> it is n

and watch google pick up support from iran, syria, and elsewhere. it should also be working with the the state department and working with gif. if it does so, its franchise throughout the world will be enhanced by orders of magnitude for not merely being a wounded victim but being the provider of enhanced closed society access to the internet. fortunately five of your members in the congress wrote in the strongest possible terms that enough is enough to the state department. have to begin to fund the existing circumvention systems and senator brownback placed holds on four senior state department nominations and took it off when some agreed to talk. they were willing to put the holds back on if within a week we don't get a serious indication they are engaging and are going to respect the wifl this congress on this critical national issue. let me just conclude by urging this commission, which does such wonderful work that you join your colleagues in urging the state department to do what we all agree with, which is to circumvent this censorship. than

in hong kong or here, you should sell your stock short and watch google pick up support from iran, syria and elsewhere. google is in a fight and a martyred defeat will not help the cause. it, too, should be pressing the state department and working with gif. if it does so, its franchise throughout the world will not be merely a wounded victim but pose society access to the internet. fortunately, five of your colleagues here in the state wrote to senator clinton on january 20th. senators brownback, casey, kyl and spector and they in the strongest possible terms have said enough is enough to the state department. that they have to begin to fund the existing circumvention systems and senator brownback placed holds on four senior state department nominations and took it off when some agreed to talk. they were willing to put the holds back on if within a week we don't get a serious indication they are engaging and are going to respect the wifl this congress on this critical national issue. let me just conclude by urging this commission, which does such wonderful work that you join your collea

the program continued just recently when israelis on the nuclear and now they're thin syria, and the iranian program continues today. i will have a lot more to say about iran and a minute. these new terrorists must have a different motive from all terrorists, because they are completely different. what do we know about the motives? we know a lot, because terrorists sought a lot about their motives. lisa -- they started talking about it in the late 1980's's. these islamic extremists affect an extreme version of his long they define as being at war with the west. for two decades in the statements they have issued thurman they have been very clear. they have a goal, which is the conversion of the entire war to their own -- the entire world to their war division of is long. -- their warped vision of is from -- of islam. the founder of the muslim brotherhood wrote decades ago, almost 80 years ago, "a maslow has no nationality but his belief -- and moslem has no nationality but his belief." they call for a grand jihad to eliminate and destroy western civilization from within so it is elimi

with peace between israel and syria and israel and lebanon.tions between israel and all the arab states. [applause] a comprehensive peace. [applause] that is real, not a slogan that is rooted in genuine recognition of israel's right to exist in peace and security and that offers the best way to ensure israel's enduring survival and well-being. that is the goal that the obama administration is determined to help israel and the palestinians achieve. george mitchell has worked tirelessly with the parties to prepare the ground for the resumption of direct negotiations, beginning with the proximity talks, though the sides have accepted. these proximity talks are a hopeful first step and they should you serious and substantive. but ultimately of course, it will take direct negotiations between the parties to work through all the issues and end the conflict. the united states stand ready to play an active and sustained role in these talks, and to support the parties as they work to resolve permanent status issues, including security, borders, refugee

if we did iraq, then we could do iran and then syria. that is the way the rest of the world looked at it because it was hyped as some new plan. it has always been true that the u.s. has been able to act preemptively in some situation if they thought it would be in our national self-defense. the issue was not preemption. it was the other word in the doctrine -- "prevention." there and is knockenot -- iran t going to have a missile with which to attack the united states. but knowing that iran may soon have a nuclear weapons capable program, do we act before they get to that point? that would be preventive war, to prevent something from happening. for all the reasons that she stated, i think we will end up in a very similar situation to the way things work in the cold war. there was a phrase in the cold war that was called "adequate verification." it was a term invented by the nixon administration. it meant that we could have an agreement with the soviet union, who we know are lying and cheating and stealing rations -- [laughter] >> it is n

build-up on the part of the iranians, the continued statements of assertiveness by the president of syria -- assad. there is increased tensions in the region, and this is not the time, while certainly, most importantly, not the time that we give the impression that there is such differences between ourselves and israel that it could be exploited by israel's enemies. mr. lieberman: mr. president, i thank my friend from arizona. i agree totally with what he said. i think it's very important that the senator from arizona has gone to this statement, the speech that vice president biden made, i believe it was on wednesday of last week in tel aviv at tel aviv university. what's interesting is that that speech came after the first day he was there when this bureaucratic announcement of the housing permits being issued in jerusalem was made. vice president put out a statement condemning that action. i understand why he was upset by it. happening when he came up. president of israel apologized for it. said he is appointing a review committee to look at how it happened so that they could setup a me

we could do it iraq, then is wrong, then -- we could do iraq, iran, syria -- it has been always trueld act preemptively if we thought it would be in our national self- defense. the issue was not actually pre- emption. it was another word called " prevention." pre-emption means the other person is about to attack and you attack first. iran is not now or for the foreseeable future going to have the ability to launch a missile with a nuclear weapon to attack the united states. the question is -- the one that fran raised -- is knowing that they may soon have a nuclear weapons capability, do we act before we get to that point? that would be preventive war. here, i think we are going to end up in a very similar situation to the way things were in the cold war. there was a phrase when arms control was first invented called "adequate verification." it was invented by the nixon administration. what it meant was that we can have an agreement with the soviet union, we know are lying, cheating, stealing russians -- >> it is not like they can help it. it is something they were born with. [laughte